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The Internet Is Ruining Your Brain [INFOGRAPHIC] Admit it: As you're reading this, you have tunnel vision — that feeling that the world is closing in on you after surfing the Internet for eight straight hours. Web dead head (yes, I made that up) is a growing concern for today's connected generation, which collectively spends 35 billion hours on the Internet every month. But we're not just talking one online shopping experience at a time. Often, we have four tabs open, cycling between emails and shopping, tweeting and word processing.

Such multi-tasking actually raises stress levels and lowers creative thinking overall, according to the research compiled by ForensicPsychology.net. SEE ALSO: Your Desk Job Makes You Fat, Sick and Dead [INFOGRAPHIC] Turns out, multi-tasking online doesn't positively exercise our brains or mental state. Domain Names 101: How to Avoid Dot-Com Disasters [INFOGRAPHIC] The overflow of quick and witty reaction tweets to the new iPad name proves a name is never just a name.

This applies for domain names, too. Here are tips to help you avoid these classic dot-com disasters — poolife.com, therapistsfinder.com or IPallover.com. DomainNameSales.com, a name registration and web hosting company, created an infographic to teach brands domain name 101. Mobile Minute: Data Created By 60 Seconds of Smartphone Use. We swim in a world full of data.

Every time we play a mobile game and swipe a piece of fruit, shoot a bad guy, fling a furious fowl at a pen of swine or tap an ad, data is being created. Over the days and weeks that data adds up to the point where we can break it down into larger trends and take a full look at the landscape that has been created. HOW TO: Recover from a Social Media PR Disaster. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

The Anatomy of a Social Media Crisis. Social media crises are on the rise, but 76% of those that occurred since 2001 could have been diminished or averted with the proper social media investments, according to a report by Altimeter Group released on Wednesday.

For the report, entitled "Social Business Readiness: How Advanced Companies Prepare Internally," Altimeter Group analyzed 50 social media crises that have occurred since 2001 and found that those reaching mainstream media have risen steadily through the past decade, with just 1-2 incidents per year in the first five years and a total of 10 social media crises last year alone. The report also sheds light on exactly how social media crises arise and how companies can avoid them. The majority of businesses caught up in social media crises lacked proper internal education programs, but the lack of a professional staff, triage system and employee social media policy were also key problem areas for companies.

Going Viral Visualized. The baby who laughs at ripping paper.

The overdramatic chipmunk. Nyan Cat. These characters are forever immortalized in the world of viral Internet content. But what is it about these vastly different pieces of content that make them so ubiquitous and sharable? 7 Easy Steps For Creating Buzzworthy Content. Few marketers know how to create stellar content without being too promotional.

Here are the steps to buzzworthiness. October 17, 2011 We've heard for years now that "content is king"—yet so few marketers seem to understand how to create useful content that isn't overly promotional for the brands supporting it. Even for those who understand the importance of rich content, though, it can be costly to get a content strategy up and running. Michael Durwin, director of user experience at Boston Technologies, has nailed down a simple step-by-step process for creating buzzworthy content on a shoestring budget. Here are his seven essential steps for creating buzzworthy content.

Internet of Yesterday & Today: 1996 vs. 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC] Where were you in 1996?

If you were in cyberspace, surfing the World Wide Web, chances are you were waiting a long time for pages to load, laughing at the first Internet meme and suffering through some god-awful graphics. My, how times have changed! While some of you weren't even born yet, I was working on the web back then, and it certainly did feel different from today. Most comments came via email, servers were rickety and crash-prone, and even though HTML coding was a lot simpler, it still took a lot of patience to get things done.

SEE ALSO: AOL Eyes Merger With Yahoo [REPORT] Infographic: What Tools Developers Actually Use. Infographic: Most Disruptive Companies in Tech - ReadWriteCloud. Focus has pulled together an infographic on the most disruptive companies in tech.

It should come as little surprise that many of the innovations are cloud-powered, or cloud-dependent. Consider the iPad, for instance. Apple's the clear leader in the tablet market, and eating away at the traditional computing market. Apple owns more than 68% of the tablet market, and is replacing laptops, e-readers and handheld games. What's that got to do with cloud? Focus also highlights Netflix.